Deep breaths...
Firstly, none of the GC Physicians are here because they are working in these kinds of places and they cannot defend there actions.
Secondly, I see animals all the time and have to gauge their pain responses before I have to do something to stop experiements. Because pain and distress is an OLAW violation.
Emergency rooms are hectic, and many people including healthcare staff are distressed. One snapshot is not going to give folks the constant turn around they need to see the entire display for weeks to years serving in the Wards. Most resident physicians stay on emergency duty for 2-3 years before they get boarded in the field.
That chit you see on ER... Bullisht.
The primary goal of the ER is to stabilize the patient. Period. That is their directive. That is how hospitals "evaluate" their practice. I cannot stress this enough:
FULL RESOLUTION TO HEAL OF A SERIOUS CHRONIC MEDICAL PROBLEM BY EMERGENCY ROOM CARE DOES NOT WORK!
This told to me by the Chief of Internal Medicine at a major hospital in my area... People cannot think the emergency medicine can be used in replacement for seeing their primary care health provider. Yes, go to emergency if your are bleeding. Yes, go to emergency in you have a 200 F temperature. Yes, go to emergency if you are hacking up purple stuff. But routine medical visits just to see doctors... YOu will not get seen properly... The emergency physician does not detect those things...
You have to follow up. Apparently, it sounds like this woman did not do that and she lost her life. But if there are 4-5 independent reviews and 20 times it shows that this woman skipped her appointments, then what are we suppose to say?
Say if this woman could have benefitted from a MRI, would she have waited until the dayum magnet would have heated up? That takes 6-12 hours to heat up the magnet. And if it is a charity hospital--GUESS WHAT!!! There is no 1.8 Tesla Magnet!!! That's off site! Missed appointment again...
This is what I do with my Health Forums. Educate the clients on what is possible when you visit your physicians. Showing that when your PHCP tells you something, they are not joking or wasting your time. They are SERIOUS. People do not know HOW to go to the doctor anymore. It's beyond "Open your mouth and say ahh and take 2 of these and call me in the morning..."
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Last edited by AKA_Monet; 05-23-2007 at 04:12 PM.
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